Friday, September 30, 2011

As we've discussed here before, "dive bar" is a tired, meaningless term that should be retired. But! For the sake of a pointless Friday conversation... here are the nearby bars that made the top-50 list.

10 comments:

Anonymous
said...

The overall list isn't as awful as I imagined based on their EV choices. 11th Street bar a dive? Hardly. Crocodile Lounge? HEATHERS?!?! Why not the Grassroots? They sell $2 pints of Bud during happy hour. And it's a shithole. I've seen dead mice in there. Fits the criteria.

continental ain't no dive bar no more --it's been transformed to a yuppie lounge

fish bar should be on this list

and mars would have been on the top of this list

[and a dive bar does not necessarily connotes a shithole place; it's “A church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows — bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It’s a place that wears its history proudly.”*]

at least there are no fratboy douchebaggery and wooooo-wooooers in these bars

A guy from village voice published a book called new york citys best dive bars a bit ago. EV was well represented, including joes etc if I recall. He seemed like he kind of got the idea that this list missed.

Got it for some buddies, funny, its in everyones apt bathrooms. Perfect length articles... ha.

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